Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The character on stage , for reasons which may possibly be explained by the insertion of a line or two into the script , wears a deaf-aid … ’ |
| 2 | For reasons which can only be guessed at he decided to establish himself near Keswick in Cumberland and returned in the following year with Hans Loner , a relative by marriage , and twelve German workers , to set up works and to prospect more fully . |
| 3 | As the months have passed , it his become clear that something like a campaign of disinformation has been waged , for reasons which can still only be guessed at . |
| 4 | Other coins made from the same different die can often be found , thus establishing a chain of die links between objects which might otherwise display no close similarities . |
| 5 | On the other hand it would save us driving 30-odd extra kilometres in the rain , and anyway I said if we get there and there is n't a ferry for hours we can just carry on to Calais . |
| 6 | Critics might say the charters are merely PR exercises for pledges which should already be standard requirements of the health service . |
| 7 | PR exercises for pledges which should already be standard requirements of the health service . |
| 8 | First aid kit — which as climbers you should anyway have . |
| 9 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 10 | using small spaces between letters and larger spaces between words which can easily be distinguished by the recogniser , the following was often found : |
| 11 | These should include mild and hot peppers ( the jalapeño pepper is not for the faint hearted ) , and tomato sauces for tacos which can also be used for many other dishes . |
| 12 | Now he 'll look out for restaurants we can both go to , ’ she explains . |
| 13 | The deeper purpose of his novels was no more than one must expect from any responsible man who draws on his experience and knowledge of the world for readers who will rightly expect both the general and the particular in the fiction . |
| 14 | Aid is now essential to Africa as any kind of external finance is essential : it is a means of paying for imports which would otherwise not be bought , about half of which are capital goods necessary for the maintenance of assets , badly depreciated after years of neglect . |
| 15 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 16 | As a result , marine creatures such as molluscs which would normally feed on blue-greens and keep them in check , can not survive . |
| 17 | Red Hot And Dance is a quasi-record of that day : an uneasy cocktail of blipvert public information and fairly lifeless live shots of acts who could loosely be classified ‘ dance ’ . |
| 18 | In addition some 20 items , including platinum , raw jute , and floppy diskettes for computers , were removed from the list of products which could only be imported by a government agency . |
| 19 | They produced an extremely effective report , which identified a large number of projects which could usefully be established to help Lanarkshire . |
| 20 | What is more , the ability to share risks may enable the collective to contemplate more risky types of projects than individual firms would have , while pooling different types of skill may expand the set of projects which can feasibly be done . |
| 21 | Period rooms in a museum are usually reconstructions and interpretations of the past , though they may well contain primary source material , the furniture and genuine artefacts from the past , and an assortment of objects which may well belong to the same period but which come from many different sources . |
| 22 | Instead , it was felt that the principal impact would be in preventing the transfer to the car of a large number of cyclists who would otherwise |
| 23 | Differences arise virtually throughout the range of activities which would normally be associated with the practice of management accounting . |
| 24 | However , the authors of WFP have not thought the matter through and have come up with a set of proposals which will simply divert attention away from the real agenda which does exist for NHS capital accounting . |
| 25 | It reduces the weights of rules which may never have occurred in any conflict set . |
| 26 | in a lot of cases you 'll just fog the issue if say ‘ How do you feel about it ? ’ |
| 27 | In the majority of cases you will simply send the application form and use the completed forms as the means of eliminating the applicants who are clearly unsuitable . |
| 28 | Quite a few courses have resulted in the formation ( not always by the library admittedly ) of groups which might generically be termed as ‘ Friends of the library ’ which may become formalized and then act as ‘ lobbyists ’ for the public library in that area . |
| 29 | The present system of allocations , in which some stately committee offers the franchise to the most persuasive ( or plausible ) claimant on the basis of pledges which may never be fulfilled , is , all agree , very near indefensible . |
| 30 | It is presumed that these respondents considered — and rejected — the argument that capping would provoke a reaction on part of institutions which would adversely affect sole and two partner practices . |